{"id":78143,"date":"2015-01-08T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/78143\/sa-open-kicks-off\/"},"modified":"2015-01-08T13:22:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T11:22:45","slug":"sa-open-kicks-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/01\/08\/sa-open-kicks-off\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Open kicks off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The game is on.<\/p>\n<p>Ekurhuleni\u2019s executive mayor Clr Mondli Gungubele teed off to officially kick-start the 104th edition of the SA Open Championship at the Glendower Golf Club in Edenvale, on Thursday.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The tournament is being hosted by the metro for the fourth time in succession this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78145\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78145\" style=\"width: 423px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/01\/02GCNSPORTGOLFMH_623713119.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78145\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/01\/02GCNSPORTGOLFMH_623713119-423x317.jpg\" alt=\"Executive mayor of Ekurhuleni Clr Mondli Gungubele flanked by Ernie Els (right) and former chairman of the SA Open board Khaya Ngqula before \u201cThe Big Easy\u201d kicked off his challenge for this year\u2019s SA Open Challenge title. The challenge is taking place at the Glendower Golf Club in Ekurhuleni.  \" width=\"423\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/01\/02GCNSPORTGOLFMH_623713119-423x317.jpg 423w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/01\/02GCNSPORTGOLFMH_623713119-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/01\/02GCNSPORTGOLFMH_623713119.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 423px) 100vw, 423px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78145\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive mayor of Ekurhuleni Clr Mondli Gungubele flanked by Ernie Els (right) and former chairman of the SA Open board Khaya Ngqula before \u201cThe Big Easy\u201d kicked off his challenge for this year\u2019s SA Open Challenge title. The challenge is taking place at the Glendower Golf Club in Ekurhuleni.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='d4f59fd406e9898d2d69fecb86c2783e'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor tees off the SA Open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":78144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[1881,969,2084,1416,2734,2078,1119],"class_list":["post-78143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-edenvale","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-glendower-golf-club","tag-golf","tag-melissa-hart","tag-sa-open","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["edenvale","germiston city news","Glendower Golf Club","golf","melissa hart","SA open","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}